WHET Sally Jesse Raphael

Her cheek implants finally exploded

Yep, cancelled before cancelled was a thing.

r2

That's Jenny Jones

She was Oprah before Oprah was Oprah.

She was doing radio as of a few years ago. She claims to have been fired from every job she ever had but keeps working. good for her.

I couldn't find the Larry King clip on youtube, but she didn't do herself any favours when Larry asked her where she was on 9/11. She replied she was scheduled to tape a broadcast. Larry asked her if she knew about the WTC destruction. She said yeah. He said something like did you tell the audience? She said no, she just went on with the taping without telling them. The implication clearly being that taping her show and keeping the audience in the dark was what was important to her.

To use my effective listening skills, when she said that I hated her fucking guts.

Her second husband died last year. She turns 87 in a few months.

Here it is 2022 and she still has done NOTHING..

R7 Was this photo taken of her when she went to see Carrot Top’s Drag debut in Vegas

Hated her. Such a demogogue.

All these trashy talk shows like Geraldo, Sally, Ricki, Montel, Maury, Oprah, Tyra and Jerry Springer did some good by at least showing gay and trans people.

[quote] In the scholarly text "Freaks Talk Back",[31] Yale University sociology professor Joshua Gamson credits the tabloid talk show genre with providing much needed high impact media visibility for gay, bisexual, transsexual and transgender people, and doing more to make them mainstream and socially acceptable than any other development of the 20th century. In the book's editorial review Michael Bronski wrote "In the recent past, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered [sic] people had almost no presence on television. With the invention and propagation of tabloid talk shows such as Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Jane Whitney, and Geraldo, people outside the sexual mainstream now appear in living rooms across America almost every day of the week."[32]

[quote] Gamson credits the tabloid talk show fad with making alternative sexual orientations and identities more acceptable in mainstream society. Examples include a recent Time magazine article describing early 21st century gays coming out of the closet younger and younger, and the decline of suicide rates among gays and lesbians. Gamson also believes that tabloid talk shows caused homosexuals to be embraced in more traditional media. Examples include sitcoms like Will & Grace, primetime shows like Queer Eye and feature films like the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain.

[quote] While having changed with the times from her tabloid talk show roots, Winfrey continued to include gay guests by using her show and to promote openly gay personalities like her hairdresser, makeup artist, and decorator Nate Berkus, who inspired an outpouring of sympathy from middle America after grieving the loss of his partner in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey's "therapeutic" hosting style and the tabloid talk show genre have been both praised and blamed for leading the media counterculture of the 1980s and 1990s, which some believe broke 20th century taboos, led to America's self-help obsession and created confession culture. The Wall Street Journal coined the term "Oprahfication" to refer to the concept of public confession as a form of therapy and Time magazine named Winfrey one of the "100 Most Influential People" of the 20th century.

[quote] Sociologist Vicki Abt criticised tabloid talk shows for redefining social norms. In her book Coming After Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show, Abt warned that the media revolution that followed Oprah's success was blurring the lines between normal and deviant behavior. Television critic Jeff Jarvis agreed, saying "Oprah was the one that trashed daytime TV. She took the Donahue format and then brought on the whiny misfits and losers and screamers and shouters, and then everyone, including Donahue, followed her, until it went overboard. Then finally she came back and recanted and said, no, no, now I'm the queen of quality on TV."[33]

Fuck that trash. In 1995, she had Robin Quivers on under the premise of plugging her book ("Quivers: A Life"), and then ambushed her with a full program titled "They Say I Hate My Race", complete with planted idiots in the audience, yelling bullshit comments at her through her entire segment.

Howard & Robin's hilarious on-air reaction/discussion used to be available on Youtube, but I can't find it now. Neither one of them are fans, as you might imagine.

[quote] "She was Oprah before Oprah was Oprah."

This is accurate, R4. "Sally" premiered in 1983, and "Oprah" in 1986. They were both trash television when they started. For better or worse, it was Oprah who eventually changed her image, and show (the format of which was lifted directly from Phil Donahue as is noted in R11's linked response).

Of course, even Jerry Springer was "serious" when he first started his show, which is still funny to me. Those clips can still be found online.

She had the best opening theme, the one used in late 90s to early 2000, I sometimes watched it just for that music, very uplifting in the late afternoon.

Horrible woman.

She spoke Spanish to Portuguese and when they complained, she'd say "So what?"

She went to shit and the hogs ate her!

I wish she'd come back

She was one of my faves. I loved her red frames in the 80s.

Wow ! She has been dining at the 24 hour buffet nonstop. And that HAIR ! QUE THE HORROR !

When ur 87 why the fuck not.

When celebrities were embroiled in a scandal, they ran to Sally Jessy Raphael. Her show was safe. Sally was calmer and mild. Her show was much less judgmental and was restrained. (This was during her earlier shows.) Leona Helmsley, at the height of the tax scandal, appeared on Sally’s show. She would’ve been ripped to shreds on the other talk shows.

Sally and Leona. That is my kind of viewing.

" To use my effective listening skills, when she said that I hated her fucking guts. "

R6 What is your native language?

[quote] Her show was much less judgmental and was restrained. (This was during her earlier shows.)

She certainly wasn't less judgmental on the shows I watched. I was always struck by how she played to the collective judgment of her audience when interviewing a guest.

I concur with r24. She judged.

[quote]Sally and Leona. That is my kind of viewing.

Did they do the scizzorine?

r25

When the guest was right she spoke FOR THEM. When the guest was wrong she to TO THEM

That's not how I received her, R27. She was a preeminent bitch.

I just wish she'd go away and stay there.

You mean Sally Lowenthal?

I was in the audience for two shows and asked questions specifically so I’d be on TV.

She did mention while talking with the audience between shows that she has never shaved her legs. She said that it’s shaving that makes the hair rough and wild. Her leg hair has remained soft

Oprah's show's debut mentioned upthread, at least here in Boston as I recall, was on our local ABC-TV affiliate from 1983, not '86.

It's Sally Jessy, you rancid whore.

Not yet, OP.

All of y’all can turn in your gay card.

Sally had great shows, and they were very fascinating and exciting to this gayling. She could be a bitch, but all the talk hosts have attitude problems, so pick your poison.

I mean, she had a dominatrix on her show! I learned a lot.

I loved coming home from school and watching one of these. They played before Judge Judy and Real TV or Beyond Belief.

The Sally Show with Robin Quivers linked above is fabulously crazy.

Whaa, [R23], you want me to close the embarrassing gaps in your education? For $1.99 a month? Switch to momma's other nipple, lad. You're blocking my light.

I remember a 90s article about the trashy talk shows at the time. The article talked about how Sally Jesse pumped up her audience prior to taping. They'd have pizza delivered and then they'd pump techno music into the studio and encourage people to dance.

R33 = Sally Jessy

I remember when she went undercover as a streetwalker, but she was john repellant.

Sally said that they would change the topic of the show at the last minute without informing her until it was time to go out on stage. Her show was owned by the same ones who owned Jerry Springer’s and they demanded baby daddy stories. Sally said that she hated this and didn’t believe in exploiting people who were obviously less educated and came from hard backgrounds. She even said that she didn’t understand how the likes of Jerry and Maury slept at night after what they did to people.

Dont worry gays. You are not the father!

r35

finally someone gets it.

Remember when she was spoofed on "Sesame Street" as Sally Messy Raphael, a friend of Oscar the Grouch.

r44

OOps I meant

Sally Messy Yuckyael

Someone please share the Sally Jessy story about how bitchy she was when she bought furniture.

What a nasty, disgusting pig.

here she is talking about her show.